pull request

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English

Noun

pull request (plural pull requests)

  1. (computing) A request to a repository maintainer to pull in and merge a proposed source code or other change.
    Synonyms: merge request, PR

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Verb

pull request (third-person singular simple present pull requests, present participle pull requesting, simple past and past participle pull requested)

  1. (computing) To submit a pull request.
    • 2014 June 30, Giovanni Cantone, Michele Marchesi, Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming: 15th International Conference, XP 2014, Rome, Italy, May 26-30, 2014, Proceedings, Springer, →ISBN, page 114:
      The GitHub Archive records any user activity (forking, pull requesting, commenting) on the social coding site GitHub. We queried the GitHub Archive for users who had specified a company name (non-empty string) in their GitHub profile []
    • 2017 August 31, Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia, Afra Mashhadi, Taha Yasseri, Social Informatics: 9th International Conference, SocInfo 2017, Oxford, UK, September 13-15, 2017, Proceedings, Part II, Springer, →ISBN, page 247:
      We denote the estimated interests of a developer given a repository that he or she forked, watched, committed or pull-requested in GitHub as I(r). Similarly, we denote the estimated interests of a developer given a question that he []
    • 2018 February 2, Mehdi Khosrow-Pour, Optimizing Contemporary Application and Processes in Open Source Software, IGI Global, →ISBN, page 89:
      GitHub Data Analysis and Its Recommender Systems In this subsection the authors present some related research works ... have studied different user behaviors on GitHub like forking, watching, commenting on issues, pull-requesting and []

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